[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] stungun
And, Lobster Fish 2, it's great you got recogzied for your hard work, despite the fact that you took a ridiculously hard route to decoding that first bit XD.[/quote]Yeah, the size of my heart grew 20% upon seeing that DeeJ gave me an honorable mention. I tried my butt off with this challenge. :)

Congrats! just read this entire forum. i kinda feel sad that some of the contributors missed out on swag but it's great that you guys won. And, Lobster Fish 2, it's great you got recogzied for your hard work, despite the fact that you took a ridiculously hard route to decoding that first bit XD. It shows what impact making an effort can have.
P.S. I'm quite surprised but I can actually understand and have knowledge of everything in this! Shows what impact hanging around gaming sites and being curious and interested in programming, etc. can have. great excuse for it
[Edited on 09.23.2012 9:01 AM PDT]

[quote] For those of you working through the puzzle, a small tidbit of advice:
Posting an answer without any explanation as to how you arrived at said answer isn't a good way of winning our little contest.
If you want to win, you need the final answer... along with some modicum of proof that you actually aren't just guessing.
As you were.
[/quote]
in hindsight, i suppose this was directed at burrito up top for getting the answer by magic...

Agree, to be honest, the art challenges are cool and it's great to see everyone's amazing stuff when they win (and not have to parse through all the submissions!), but this challenge was right up my alley and just fun to follow along as it was worked out. Very cool, Bungie.

In all seriousness, the Code Breakers got really close, its just that instead of turning the 7's into 1's, we were turning the 1's into 7's and getting a load of gibberish. Congrats to everyone else! Lucky bastards...

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Khirna
[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] DeeJ
Sometimes, when riddles like the one you solved over the weekend are pitched to me, I shoot them down. "Too hard," I say. "They won't be able to solve that," I say.
You people never fail to impress.
Winner: bluchill9
Runner Up: SpecOps11
Honorable Mention: Beorn
Honorable Mention: Lobster Fish 2
All of you should send me a message with your name, address, and size.
Well done, all.[/quote]
I'm impressed, that was quite a doozy. Definitely got me thinking that I need to challenge myself some more again. [/quote]This.
Although I'm actually equally as impressed by Deej picking more than one winner and instead picking the winner and major contributors.
That's kind of cool.

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] DeeJ
Sometimes, when riddles like the one you solved over the weekend are pitched to me, I shoot them down. "Too hard," I say. "They won't be able to solve that," I say.
You people never fail to impress.
Winner: bluchill9
Runner Up: SpecOps11
Honorable Mention: Beorn
Honorable Mention: Lobster Fish 2
All of you should send me a message with your name, address, and size.
Well done, all.[/quote]
I'm impressed, that was quite a doozy. Definitely got me thinking that I need to challenge myself some more again.

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] burritosenior
Pfft whatever lobster fishy fish. I was the first to get it right. burrito wins!
XP[/quote]Like we've discussed, in my heart that guess of Soffish makes you a winner. I'll be sure to PM you a picture of me with my prize before I post it in the swag thread ;)

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] DeeJ
Sometimes, when riddles like the one you solved over the weekend are pitched to me, I shoot them down. "Too hard," I say. "They won't be able to solve that," I say.
You people never fail to impress.
Winner: bluchill9
Runner Up: SpecOps11
Honorable Mention: Beorn
Honorable Mention: Lobster Fish 2
All of you should send me a message with your name, address, and size.
Well done, all.[/quote]HOLY CRAP. Why am I just seeing this NOW (thanks to an @ mention on twitter)? Sweet! I won, something. Will be sending you that message now DeeJ :)

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] MURDUR 587
[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] bluechill9
[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Wikked Navajoe
[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] MURDUR 587
The one time the challenge is related to binary, hexadecimal and programming and I miss it.
Darn.[/quote]Exactly.
Leave it to school to mess up your free time.[/quote]I have school too ya know ;) and yet I still did it :)[/quote]Well I actually thought this was a thread asking for questions rather than one posting a mail sack.
Unless those two became one and the same at some point.
I really haven't been keeping up with mail sack dynamics.[/quote]
It was linked from the mail sack article as "post your answers here" :P

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] bluechill9
[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Wikked Navajoe
[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] MURDUR 587
The one time the challenge is related to binary, hexadecimal and programming and I miss it.
Darn.[/quote]Exactly.
Leave it to school to mess up your free time.[/quote]I have school too ya know ;) and yet I still did it :)[/quote]Well I actually thought this was a thread asking for questions rather than one posting a mail sack.
Unless those two became one and the same at some point.
I really haven't been keeping up with mail sack dynamics.

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Mythical Wolf
[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] DeeJ
[/quote]
All that for a piece of clothing? I thought it was going to be something bigger.[/quote]You're underestimating the significance of such clothing.

Sometimes, when riddles like the one you solved over the weekend are pitched to me, I shoot them down. "Too hard," I say. "They won't be able to solve that," I say.
You people never fail to impress.
Winner: bluchill9
Runner Up: SpecOps11
Honorable Mention: Beorn
Honorable Mention: Lobster Fish 2
All of you should send me a message with your name, address, and size.
Well done, all.

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] bluechill9
[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Wikked Navajoe
[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] MURDUR 587
The one time the challenge is related to binary, hexadecimal and programming and I miss it.
Darn.[/quote]Exactly.
Leave it to school to mess up your free time.[/quote]
I have school too ya know ;) and yet I still did it :)[/quote]
And it was pretty late at night (here on the east coast at least), so as long as you were willing to spend a few waking hours doing some soft-core coding and math, you probably could've had some fun that night/morning.

[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Wikked Navajoe
[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] MURDUR 587
The one time the challenge is related to binary, hexadecimal and programming and I miss it.
Darn.[/quote]Exactly.
Leave it to school to mess up your free time.[/quote]
I have school too ya know ;) and yet I still did it :)